To:J. V. STALIN

Dictated:Dictated by phone at 9.00 on May 6, 1922Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Thistelegram has been directed to the Politbureau quite
wrongly. This matter should be decided through Soviet
government channels. Such a telegram must be dispatchedwith the signature of both deputy chairmen, the chairman
or deputy chairman of the Concessions Committee and,
finally, the head of the Central Fuel Administration. These
are the persons who are alone responsible, and should
normally be responsible for the accuracy of the figures given
here, and for seeing that the instructions issued here
conform with statutes and decrees issued by the Soviet
institutions concerned. I therefore refuse to vote on the
substance of this
telegram.[1]

[1]Areference to the draft telegram circulated to Politbureau
members in reply to the inquiry from G. V. Chicherin and L. B. Krasin
at Genoa about the possible scale of loading and discharge
of fuel and scrap metal in connection with talks on trade and
concessions agreements.

Thereply was sent on May 8, 1922, and was signed by Deputy
C.P.C. Chairman, A. I. Rykov.